The Burnside crew we send takes the old bathtub out, seals the new door in and tests it full, all over Apache County. Bathing stays at home, where it belongs.
One number reaches the people who fit the tubs. Say what the bathroom is like and we take it from there.
(844) 578-1861Take your time on the phone. Who does the bathing, how they get around today, the size of the bathroom and the doorways on the way in: that is all we need to set a date for the visit.
Finding a safer way to soak at home changes everything when your old stepping hurdle becomes a scary daily task. You deserve a deep, soaking bath that lets you relax without stressing over slippery porcelain or dangerous trips. Getting a zero-barrier entry soaking basin set up in your home gives you total peace of mind right away.
Actually, stepping over a high ceramic wall every night gets pretty tough on your knees after a few years. My own uncle kept slipping on his slick tub bottom until we finally yanked that outdated beast out. Upgrading to a custom accessible soaking unit lets you step inside through a swing door without raising your foot higher than a few inches off the floor.
Besides that big safety bonus, these modern step-in bathing systems hold warm water much higher than standard setups. That means your shoulders actually stay underwater while you sit on a raised, slip-resistant bench seat. You simply sit down, shut the leak-proof door seal, and turn on the quick-fill faucets to enjoy a long, relaxing soak.
Fortunately, these safe deep-soaker tubs feature fast dual-drain technology so you do not freeze waiting for the water to empty out. Nobody likes sitting around getting cold while waiting to open the side door. Our trained local crew installs high-capacity drainage systems that dump gallons in just minutes.
In addition, hydrotherapy jet jets can rub out those stubborn lower back aches while you rest comfortably inside. You control the water pressure and air bubbles with simple touch buttons that stay right at your fingertips. Take a quick look at how these smart features stack up against standard high-walled fixtures:
| Feature Type | Standard Bath Basin | Step-In Bathing Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Step Height | High hurdle (15 to 18 inches) | Low threshold (2 to 4 inches) |
| Seating Style | Flat floor, hard to stand up | Built-in contoured bench seat |
| Safety Hardware | None built in, slick walls | Integrated grab bars, textured floor |
Honestly, every bathroom down here has its own weird plumbing quirks and layout issues. Our skilled local handyman team measures your exact frame dimensions before ordering your heavy-duty, reinforced gel-coat fiberglass acrylic unit. We make sure the step-in water basin glides right through your interior doorways without tearing up your doorframes.
Obviously, running powerful water jets and fast-drain pumps means your existing lines might need a small tune-up. We check your water heater output to ensure your tank holds enough hot water to fill a deep-soak chamber. Sometimes we set up a dedicated fast-heating unit so you never run out of warm water halfway through your relaxing evening.
Furthermore, our certified installers handle the heavy structural wiring work to keep everything super safe around running water. Ground-fault circuit protection keeps your whirlpool hydro pumps running smooth without popping your breaker panel every single week. We test every single valve and jet pump before we wrap up our work day.
Meanwhile, fitting a spacious step-in tub into a compact mobile home or tight ranch layout takes careful planning. We craft smooth custom wall surround panels that hide old tile gaps and match your current room decor. Your renovated space ends up looking like a fancy spa center instead of a boring medical room.
Consequently, your upgraded washing zone stays simple to scrub down using basic household bathroom spray. Non-porous surfaces stop mold and mildew from hiding in ugly grout lines over time. That keeps your clean room looking fresh with almost zero back-breaking labor on your end.
Now, let us talk straight about money because nobody likes hidden charges when updating their residential property. Homes out in this scenic rural part of the state, where typical family earnings sit near twenty-six thousand dollars, need solid work that lasts forever without breaking the bank. Investing in home safety lets folks stay in their beloved houses instead of moving away into pricey assisted living spaces.
To start off, basic walk-in soakers cost less than top-tier models with air jets, heated backrests, and fancy colored light therapy. The overall price tag depends on your current drain layout, wire upgrades, and how fast you want the job wrapped up. Getting a detailed, upfront estimate helps you choose the exact options your household actually needs.
Likewise, our local contractors visit your house directly to look over your plumbing setup for free. We do not charge anything just to come out, measure your space, and write down a total price guarantee. You get clear figures without any high-pressure sales talk or pushy trick tricks.
First off, our crew lays down protective floor runners so we do not drag red dust or boot prints across your clean carpets. We disconnect your clunky old tub, chop it into manageable pieces, and haul the heavy scrap metal out to our trucks. We recycle the old materials whenever possible to keep the local landfills clean.
Next up, we reinforce the subfloor structure underneath your brand-new deep-soaking barrier-free bath unit. Water gets super heavy when filled to the top, so building a rock-solid floor base stops flex and prevents leaks down the road. We level the frame precisely so the watertight swing door seals up tight every time.
After that, we hook up your fresh drain fittings, main hot-cold supply lines, and low-profile grab bars. We test the watertight door seal under full water pressure to guarantee zero drops spill onto your floor. Once everything passes our strict safety test, we mount high-grade wall surround panels that match your home layout.
Lastly, we wipe down the entire area, pack up our gear, and walk you through every simple button control. We make sure you feel totally confident filling, running, and draining your new step-in personal spa basin. Our job is not done until you love how simple your nightly bath routine feels.
Clearly, hiring a local contractor team that knows this rural high-desert region makes the whole job run smooth. Living near the heart of the Navajo Nation reservation land means understanding local home structures, water table pressure, and regional building needs. We treat your living space with the same respect we give our own family homes.
Remember, waiting until someone takes a nasty tumble inside a slippery ceramic tub is always a costly mistake. Adding a low-step hydrotherapy bathtub protects your independent lifestyle for many long years ahead. You get to stay comfortably in your home without relying on extra help just to take a quick wash.
Which means right now is the best time to figure out what fits your unique space and budget. Our experienced team stands ready to swing by your place, inspect your current bathroom layout, and give you a written plan. Call us today or fill out our online form to get your completely free, no-obligation estimate right away!
Three ideas carry the whole invention. Once they make sense, the rest of this page is just detail.
You open the door, walk in on a dry floor, sit down and close it. Only then does the water run. Because the door swings into the tub, the water itself presses it against its seal: the fuller the tub, the tighter it holds. The design cannot forget to be shut properly.
An ordinary bathtub asks you to swing a leg over a wall some fifteen inches tall, on wet tile, usually while holding nothing sturdier than a towel bar. A walk-in tub asks for a small step, about the height of a stair riser cut in half, with a grab bar placed exactly where your hand goes looking for one.
The honest cost of the sealed door is that you sit while the tub fills and while it empties. Makers answer with fast drains, often two of them, that send the water away in a couple of minutes, and with heated seats and warm air so those minutes pass kindly. We time both on your own plumbing at the assessment.
We install walk-in tubs, so you might expect us to always recommend one. We will not. If you have not enjoyed a bath in twenty years, a walk-in shower may serve you better, and we will say so at your own sink. Here is the honest picture.
| The question | Walk-in tub | Walk-in shower |
|---|---|---|
| What bathing feels like | A full warm soak, jets if you want them | A quick rinse, standing or on a bench |
| Time it asks of you | Longer: fill, soak, drain | Minutes, in and out |
| Floor space needed | Sits in the footprint of the old bathtub | Wants a little more open floor to work well |
| Budget, installed | Higher, because the door and seal are precision work | Often lower for a simple conversion |
| Sore joints and tired muscles | Warm water and jets do real, daily good here | No soak, so none of the soak's relief |
| Who tends to love it | People who cherish their bath and mean to keep it | People who shower quickly and want easy cleaning |
The deciding question is usually the first row. If the answer to "do you miss your bath" is yes, the rest of the table tends to follow.
We cut it free, shield the floors along the hallway and carry it out gently. Most old bathtubs are gone from the house before lunch.
Walk-in tubs are built to travel through ordinary doorways. Every door on the route gets measured at the assessment, so delivery day holds no surprises.
Your supply lines usually stay where they are. We fit the new valve, the hand shower and the quick drain, and check that your water heater can fill a proper soak.
The door is the heart of the tub, so it gets the slow, careful hour: aligned, adjusted and closed on its seal until the gap reads even all the way around.
When your tub has hydrotherapy, the pumps go in quiet, the lines are purged, and every control lands where a seated bather reaches it without leaning.
Panels and trim close the sides and the caulk lines are drawn clean. Then the tub is filled to the very brim once, and we watch the seal earn its keep.
We would rather tell you this before you fall in love with a tub. A walk-in tub is a home improvement, not medical equipment, and it is paid for out of the household budget the way a new roof or a rebuilt porch is. Anyone who tells you otherwise on a first phone call is selling harder than they are listening.
We make no claim about what any plan, programme or agency might do on your behalf, and we will not guess for them. Those questions belong to the people who administer them, and their answer is the only one that counts. Ask them directly, and ask before you commit to anything, including anything of ours.
What we can do is make the asking easy. Your quote arrives itemized, every line explained, so whoever needs to see it gets a precise document instead of a vague promise. That is the whole of what we control, and we would rather hand you that than a hopeful sentence about somebody else's money.
You tell us who bathes and how they get around, the rough size of the bathroom and how the tub would travel in. A few minutes on the phone, and a date for the visit.
We come to your home, measure the bathroom and every doorway on the route, and listen. No van full of tubs at the curb, no clipboard theatrics, no hurry.
A written quote follows, with each line explained in plain words: the tub, the work, the removal of the old one. Show it to your family. Sleep on it as long as you like.
One crew, one to three days. The old tub out, the new one plumbed, sealed and tested full. Your water is off for hours at a stretch, never for days.
Before we leave, we go through the door, the seat, the drain and the controls with the person who will actually bathe, until every part of it feels ordinary.
| The project | Usual bracket | What sits inside it |
|---|---|---|
| Walk-in soaker tub, installed | $4,000 - $8,000 | The tub, the door, removal of the old bathtub and the full fitting. |
| Hydrotherapy tub with jets | $6,000 - $12,000 | Water jets, warm air or both, with the pumps and controls they need. |
| Bariatric or wide-door tub | $7,000 - $14,000 | Wider seats and doors on a reinforced frame, sized at the assessment. |
| Removing the old bathtub alone | $450 - $1,200 | Folded into the lines above; priced apart only if you stop there. |
| Dedicated electrical circuit | $400 - $1,000 | Heated seats and pumps want their own breaker when the panel has no spare. |
| Walk-in tub and shower combo | $8,000 - $15,000 | One unit that soaks and showers, for households that want both. |
Your bathroom, your plumbing and the tub you choose set the final figure. That is exactly what the assessment is for.
| The feature | What it is | Why it counts |
|---|---|---|
| Low threshold | A step of about four inches into the tub | The climb over a bathtub wall is where most bathroom falls begin. Removing the climb removes the moment. |
| Seat at chair height | A molded seat near seventeen inches, like a dining chair | Sitting down and standing back up stay easy on knees and hips, with no lowering to the floor of a tub. |
| Grab bars where hands land | Fixed bars at the door and beside the seat | Balance never has to depend on a towel bar that was only ever meant to hold towels. |
| Textured floor and seat | Slip resistance molded into the tub surface itself | Wet feet keep their grip without rubber mats that curl, slide and grow things. |
| Anti-scald valve | A mixing valve that caps how hot water can arrive | Skin grows thinner with the years. The valve keeps a hot surprise from ever reaching it. |
You do sit in the tub while it fills, so the wait is real: usually a few minutes, depending on your water pressure and your heater. Many bathers spend it with the warm air running or the hand shower on their shoulders. At the assessment we run your own faucet and give you an honest minute count for your own bathroom, not a brochure number.
The door only opens once the water is gone, so the drain matters. Fast drain systems empty most tubs in about two minutes, and heated seats and warm air keep the chill away while they do. We will tell you plainly which tubs drain fastest on your plumbing around Burnside.
The door seals the way a ship's hatch does: the water itself presses it shut, so a good seal gets tighter as the tub fills. Every tub we fit is filled to the brim and watched before we call the job finished, and the seal carries the maker's warranty. If it ever weeps, we come back, and the trip costs you nothing.
Nearly always, because walk-in tubs are designed to travel through ordinary hallways and door frames. We measure the whole route at the assessment, front porch to bathroom. If a doorway is genuinely too narrow, you hear it from us at your kitchen table, never on delivery day.
Yes, and it happens all the time. We can hold the assessment while you are there in person, on the phone or on a video call, and the written quote goes to whoever is helping with the decision. The walkthrough at the end is always done with the person who will actually bathe.
No. We measure, we listen, we leave a written price, and your house is your own again. Some families decide that week and some take a season. The figure holds as written, and nobody from our side will camp on your phone line.
Pan around for the terrain and the distances; the place lists at the bottom of this page name each community we can drive to from here.
One sealed door between you and the bath you have been missing.
Call (844) 578-1861